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6 months ago ::
Dec 04, 2012 - 6:32AM
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Blood Mage please!
Thats certainly an idea...
I think CON has some very cool possibiliies ranging from instinctive to painful and/or pleasurable casting .. to luck manipulations (yes luck is in hit points why not in CON).
you rascal you.
Wheel of Time Channellers were affected by the forces they channelled, degree of restance affects quality of casting, not resisting the magics influence is dangerous in various ways.
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6 months ago ::
Dec 04, 2012 - 6:36AM
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Why not a big fat warrior rolling over his ennemies ?
His mass could allow to make attacks to bounce back to the attackers.
And he could have a gas based mean to gain flight for short periods.
His body would be his weapon, a little like a monk, but in a more heavy style…
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6 months ago ::
Dec 04, 2012 - 6:38AM
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Why not a big fat warrior rolling over his ennemies ?
His mass could allow to make attacks to bounce back to the attackers.
And he could have a gas based mean to gain flight for short periods.
His body would be his weapon, a little like a monk, but in a more heavy style…
uggh.
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6 months ago ::
Dec 04, 2012 - 6:39AM
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Why not a big fat warrior rolling over his ennemies ?
His mass could allow to make attacks to bounce back to the attackers.
And he could have a gas based mean to gain flight for short periods.
His body would be his weapon, a little like a monk, but in a more heavy style…
And he could have a gas based mean to gain flight for short periods.
have a gas based mean
gas based
farts!.... 
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6 months ago ::
Dec 04, 2012 - 6:40AM
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Wasn't there a thread that talked about making the monk's ki run off of constitution? The idea was that ki is based on breath, and constitution is the natural ability score for a character's breath.
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6 months ago ::
Dec 04, 2012 - 6:43AM
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Why not a big fat warrior rolling over his ennemies ?
His mass could allow to make attacks to bounce back to the attackers.
And he could have a gas based mean to gain flight for short periods.
His body would be his weapon, a little like a monk, but in a more heavy style…
Lol, man I would definitely make Sir Frederick J. Dukes if I could.
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6 months ago ::
Dec 04, 2012 - 6:44AM
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I don't really associate luck with con, myself but durability is durability, I guess.
Shrug.. hit points are a variety of things and a large measure of that is Luck at some levels the association just allows some of the fluff of hit points to better connect with how much impact CON has variously been allowed to have on them.
I'd see a con fighter as some kind of impregnible bastion of defense.
Instinct... can be offense too.
and stamina which allows/enables even wasteful use of energy.
Every body uses con defensively.. you have to find its active components for this idea to be distinct.
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6 months ago ::
Dec 04, 2012 - 6:52AM
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I love the flavor that being con-based imparts to warlocks, the notion that you're a conduit of powerful energies and you can channel those energies just to the greatest extent that you can physically bear. It might also work for a wilder-style psion class.
The only off thing I see is Wilder is about going BEYOND what their body can take. Not sure if Con works for them.
However, I have been playing around with the idea of a Battlemind who, instead of harnessing the psionic energy in himself, manipulates the psionic energy that flows through everyone on the battlefield. Making it more ally friendly then psionic classes usually are. (Somehow.) If you know the setup I'm playing with, it would be a class with no per turn recharge (short rest instead) but a high number of power points. Representing a lack of self focus, but a massive resource of points that is only limited by what he can physically handle. I could definitely see Con being used for that.
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6 months ago ::
Dec 04, 2012 - 7:17AM
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I don't really associate luck with con, myself but durability is durability, I guess.
Shrug.. hit points are a variety of things and a large measure of that is Luck at some levels the association just allows some of the fluff of hit points to better connect with how much impact CON has variously been allowed to have on them.
I can see that as a way of expanding constituation usefulness. If constituion represents the characteristics that makeup your characters health, it easy to see things like luck and spirit fitting under the way constitution is defined.
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6 months ago ::
Dec 04, 2012 - 7:24AM
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I definitely understand your reasoning for equating Con to luck (via hp), but i wonder if it's not based on false logic?
When you level, you gain 1dX + ConMod. So which of these things are physical stamina and which are luck? I think it's pretty evident. The 1dX represents a little bit of everything (luck, stamina, morale), while the ConMod only represents additional fortitude.
Consider a melee weapon attack. You have a skill based bonus (from your class) and an attribute based bonus (from Strength). Your ability to swing your sword is a combination of Skill and Strength. But you would never say that you can apply your Weapon Skill Bonus to Strength checks to open doors!
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